Weight-lever for spinning-machines.



E. DIXON.

WEIGHT LEVER FOR SPINNING MACHINES.

APPLICATION IILEIJ NOV. 25, 1911.

1,078,996. Patented N0v.18,1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAMI CD.,WA5NINOTON: n. c.

EZRA. DIXON, OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

WEIGHT-LEVER FOR SPI'NIN'INGJVIACHINES.

Application filed November 25, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18,1913.

Serial No. 662,286.

To (a l LU/0771, it may concern:

lie it known that .l, EZRA 1)1XON, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Bristol, in the county oil. Bristol and State of Rhodeisland, have invented a new and useful improvement in lVeight-Levers for Spinn1ngiviaehines, of which the following is a specilieation.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in weight levers for spinning machines, and relates more particularly to the means for permitting adjustment between the arms or parts oi the lever.

The primary object of the invention is to provide improved, novel and el'licient means for connecting the arms of the lever so thatsame will he positively held in any position to which they may be moved or adjusted, and which will at the same time permit ad justment to be accomplished with case and facility.

In the drawings,-Fignre 1 is a side elevation, partly in section of a part of a spinning machine equipped with the present invention. l igs. and 3 are detail perspective views of the two parts or arms of the lever. Fig. t is a section on the line 1- 1 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 is a perspective view t a modified form of one 01 the arms or parts. 7

l The frame of the machine is iinlicated at 1 in the drawings and supports the standard 2 on which the lower rolls 3 and the upper rolls l; are moi'mted. The arms 5 and (3 bear on the upper rolls and il 2 arm 5 has a strap connected thereto, the lower end of which is com'iected to the weight lever generally designated 8 in the d rawings. 'lhe weight lever is con'iposed of two arms or parts 5) and 10, the part 5) having a hookshaped end 11 \vhicl'i engages through an eye 12 secured to the frame l. The arm 5) is formed with a series of slots 13 which extend longitudinally thereof, and which have central enlarged portions i l, that extend on opposite sides of the slots as clearly de 'iieted in llig. of the drawings. In other words the openings 14- may be l to comprise a circular hole that is crossei'l by a slot 13. i1 hook 1.5 is carried by the rear end oi. the arm 9 and engages in one of a series (it slots 16 that extend up through the bottom edge of the arm 10. the slots '16 having their outer ends or months widened so as to easily receive the hook 15. The

upper or top edge of the arm 10 is formed at .its rear end with a slot 17 to receive the arm 18 from the lower end of which the weight 19 is suspended. The front end of the arm 10 is formed with a T shaped head or stud 20 the thickness of which is such as to permit the head to he turned so that the arm 10 extends at right angles to the arm 5) whereupon the head 20 is introduced into the slot 13, and then turned to assume the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, in which it will be noted that the outer end oi the arm 10 seats in the hook 15, as shown more clearly in Fig. 1 ol the drawings. The length of the head is such that same may easily enter the slots 13, and the shank of head 20 is caused to occupy the aperture 14.

The modification disclosed by Fig. 5 of the drawings proposes the use 01 but one slot 21, that is made sulliciently long so as to connect the several openings 14:. In this term of the invention the head 20 is introdueed into the slot 21 and is then moved therealong until the desired opening 14 has been reached, after which the arm is turned to unite the parts as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:-

1.. in a weight. lever for spinning machines, a pair ct arms, one of said arms havinn a series at downwardly facing notches therein, a T-shaped head on one end of said arm, and the opposite end of said arm having): a notch therein to suspend a weight therefrom, the other arm having an upwardly extending hook -formed on one end to engage in one at said notches ot' the first mentioned arm and also having an aperture therein and a slot that is disposed longitudinally oil the arm and extends on opposite sides of the aperture through the latter.

2. In a weight lever "for spinning machines, a pair of arms, one of said arms having notches therein, a T-shaped head on one end of said arm, the other arm having an upwari'lly extending hook to engage in one oi. the notches of the first mentioned arm and the outer side of the latter and also having an aperture crossed by an elongated slot that extends on opposite sides of said aperture the shank of the head being re ceived in the aperture.

3. In a device ot' the type set forth, a pair of arms one of the arms having a series of notches and a Tshaped head on its inner end, the other arm having an upwardly eX tending hook which engages the bottom edge and the outer face oi the first ment-icned arm, and also having an aperture crossed by a slot to receive said T-shaped head and to permit the latter to be turned to bring the shank oi the head in said aperture the shank of the head being received in the aperture,

4. In a Weight lever for spinning machines, a pair of arms, one of the arms having an aperture crossed by a slot and the other arm having a T-shaped head, the slot being of a length to permit the head to be passed therethrough and then turned to cause the shank of the head to occupy the aperture, the head engaging the outer side of the first named arm, and means carried by the first named arm to engage the outer a Ccpies of this patent may be obtaine for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

